Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Algebra 1, 2015
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Exercise 2 Page 4

Isolate a using inverse operations.

a=14

To solve the equation for a, we need to isolate a using inverse operations.
9+a=23
9+a-9=23-9
a=14
Hence, the solution to the equation is a=14.